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So what about coming up with a standard set of dimensions to take off of each helmet. Not enough to copy stuff, but to get a basic sense.

My thought is that we measure the distance from the bottom of one earcap to the bottom of the other, the distance from the back of the helmet to the front, the height of the dome when it's sitting flat on the floor, and the circumference of the outside of the dome, right above the visor line.

Then we put them all together, perhaps even with pictures of each helmet, and have a really neat, easy to read way for folks to find the right thing.

I can measure my HS, MS3 and BF helmets tonight (the raffle where I'm giving away the BF helmet is Saturday!), At some point I could get Webchief's MSH2.

since we're from all over, we can measure in our local preferred format and just convert so we have both inches and centimeters.

for the height. i'm thinking that if you put a construction level on the top, level it, and measure the distance from there to the table it will be most accurate. but it's not like we need to be within the milimeter on this stuff

this thread is great. i was actually thinking about something like this today but more like a sticky that was similar to starwarshelmets.com sort of speak, where there are the different makers armor/helmets/gear pictured in one place where you could easily look and compare and contrast with the names of the makers. i know that would be helpful in my struggles to find parts i like.

sorry for the hijack, but yeah, good idea this thread is. (that sounded very yoda like...)

That's an extremely comprehensive set of measurements, maybe more than this project needs? I think at least the basics of:

* width/depth of the bottom opening
* the circumference around the red mandible stripe
* distance from inside the top to the bottom (hard to do)
* distance over the top of the dome (triangles) to the back (keyslot)
* and maybe triangulate the location of the dent

that might give people a good baseline for how a helmet is going to fit.

Would it be inappropriate to ask makers to provide some of the data? The reason I ask is that I have bought two buckets from the same maker, one from an older mold and one from a newer, and the differences are significant. This isn't a maker with numbered models, either, as far as I know in my limited experience. I can measure both of the ones I have and provide that data, but it might make more sense coming directly from the guys and gals that make the thing. Or am I off base here?

Please, let's do away with the english system, and have ALL measurements in Metric?

Geez, I was going to suggest we use an ancient traditional Japanese measuring system (a specific iteration used during the Edo period), but you seem so strongly in favor of metric, I guess we should go with that.

Seriously though, whoever comes up with measurements in one system, someone else will probably post a conversion of it. I'll start. The circumference of my Sgt Fang mystery is 2.389 shaku. Anybody?